Just wondering if it's a flawed security measure, with an easy work around that scrotes & spotty youth  know about but most bike owners don't.


The Daily Mail article below made me wonder


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3727746/Shocking-moment-brave-motorcyclist-acid-thrown-face-gang-tries-stop-stealing-high-powered-bike.html

Hi
Have to squeeze the bike through a narrow gate at home so every day I carefully fold the left hand mirror up (holding the stem) in order to get through. When I first got the bike (about 7 months ago) the mirror mechanism was nice an tight, but it has over time become pretty loose.


I've done a forum search but can only find reference to this issue on the FZ6 forum, apparently the 600's pivot mechanism is held tight with a rivet rather than a nut & bolt.


I've taken off the side panel and found the two bolts that fix to the fairing are tight, but before I strip the mirror off, does anyone know if the FZ1S pivot is simply riveted (in which case I may just bite the bullet and buy a new mirror), or fitted with something more adjustable


TIA

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Thought I'd ask incase there is an obvious reason for this before I start digging.


It's an 2008 FZ1S and when used daily starts on the button everytime, however I'm on holiday at the moment and have on two occasions left the bike parked for 5 days. After both occasions, when I've attempted to start the bike there's enough juice for the lights but not enough to turn the starter motor.


Each time I've connected the battery up to an Optimate which has gone through it's various processes within a couple of hours and given the 'green' light of health and this time, straight after charging I checked the battery with a multimeter. Initial reading with ignition switched off was 13.5v but reading was dropping .01v every 15seconds or so,  on starting the engine the reading climbed to 14.8v, so I'm happy with the battery & rect but something somewhere is drawing quite a bit of power


The bike is standard with no electrical accessories, the only draw I know off being the Yamaha immobiliser. Before I start hunting for the cause I was wondering if there may be an obvious reason, or FZ1S quirk that I don't know abot


Thanks in advance   

My first (non 'Introduction' posts here, so please be gentle.


As I'm far too lazy and inept to do the job properly myself and had just purchased a new (to me) FZ1S that I wanted to protect from the winter elements I thought I'd try one of those professional application centres.  I attended yesterday and was so impressed that I posted some comments on the regular forum I use (http://www.therevcounter.co.uk/threads/106444-Acf-50/page4) and thought I'd share them with you lovely folk too. The post is pasted below....


"So impressed that I've pre-booked a session for next year. Booked with AllYearBiker at their East London franchise (based in Chigwell IG7 6DQ). I initially booked via their website which is utter pants as it lets you book any date without regard to other bookings the franchise already has, but after confirming on their website and a couple of phone calls they found a slot for me a few days later than my initial request, fortunately I have the week off so a Thursday 9.00am appointment was fine (Saturday bookings are predictably over subscribed).


Their East London franchise is operated by 'Winners Detailing' whose main business is err Detailing, and Colin, the bloke running it can only be described as passionate & professional. Whilst the standard AllYearBiker service appears good enough, it's not thorough enough for Colin who insists that every nook and cranny of the bike should be meticulously cleaned (almost a full valet) & every element of the bike 100% dried (using a bike dryer), prior to applying the ACF50 which he in effect applies twice, first via an atomiser (?) which is then wiped down with a microfibre cloth heavily saturated with ACF50, then he goes over the entire bike again, this time with a lightly coated (with ACF50) microfibre cloth before finally buffing the entire bike to showroom glory, this last element (post initial ACF50) application took an hour and a half! and they make no apologies for the amount of time they spend and won't give you the bike back until they're happy with it, they will however drop you off & pick up from a local tube station if you don't want to spend half a day there.

I'd recommend this guy without reservation, his thoroughness & patience were incredible, the AllYearBiker service typically takes (I believe) under two and a half hours, where as Colin's version, well I arrived at 9.00am and they started working on the bike as soon as it was cool enough, excepting a 10 minute sandwich break they worked constantly and handed the bike back to me not far short of 2.30pm"